May 5, 2005, Thursday

SINCE Tibor Kalman was a friend of mine, I'm not able to write an objective review of ''Tiborocity: Design and Un design by Tibor Kalman,'' the New Museum of Contemporary Art's lively retrospective of the late graphic designer's work. But I'd feel...

August 17, 2000, Thursday

The designer Tibor Kalman was a jack of several trades who deliberately avoided mastering any of them. This, at least, is the impression conveyed by the vivid, if motley, exhibition at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in SoHo. ''Tiborocity'' was...

May 19, 2000, Friday

Tibor Kalman, the graphic designer, died in May, but his widow, the artist Maira Kalman, said, ''He's very present.'' Not only is his company, M&Co, introducing one of his last designs, the ''Grass Umbrella'' ($45), above, but last month, the Museum...

July 15, 1999, Thursday

KALMAN-Tibor. The Architectural League notes with great sadness the death of the designer, humanist, and provocateur Tibor Kalman. Tibor stirred things up, brilliantly. His absence will leave a huge hole in the design community, in NY and...

May 6, 1999, Thursday

KALMAN-Tibor. The American Institute of Graphic Arts celebrates the extraordinary contributions Tibor Kalman made to design, always with wit and irony, even as designers nationwide mourn his loss. He nurtured some, goaded many and fascinated us all....

May 5, 1999, Wednesday

Tibor Kalman, a graphic designer whose innovative ideas about art and society helped change the way a generation of designers and their clients viewed the world, died on Sunday at the Hyatt Dorado Hotel near San Juan, P.R. He was 49 and lived in...

May 5, 1999, Wednesday

To come up with a cover, the magazine tried an experiment, asking some of the country's top designers to solve the same design problem -- to capture in one ''poster'' the message of its special issue: the shock of the familiar. The teams --...

Most prize winners get weighty medals. Recipients of Germany's Federal Award for Design Leadership get weighty books -- paeans to their careers, written by a designer the winner chooses. The 1997 winner, Rolf Fehlbaum, chief executive of Vitra, a...